Re: WDSC for Linux...

Scott Klement wrote on 01/11/2006 12:59:46 PM:

Any chance that there will be a WDSC version released for Linux 

desktop?

That means that IBM can't just "support Linux" they have to support lots 

and lots of different environments.  Linux software usually solves this 
problem by providing you with source code that configures itself based 

on 

the various tools you have installed, and then compiles itself as 
appropriate. For the very popular distributions, pre-compiled versions 

may 

be provided to save you the time of re-compiling.

IBM, however, doesn't want to make WDSC open source.  So they'd have to 
maintain every desktop environment.

That's a really good point, and probably one of the weaker points of 
GNU/Linux.

Here's an alternative: IBM could just choose one distro to support - say 
Red Hat.  I've never used RH, but I'd be happy enough if they simply said 
"WDSC works on Red Hat.  If you want to use another distro, YMMV.  Here 
are the dependancies: <big fat list of dependancies>."

That way, I can choose to use Red Hat if painless installs are that 
important.  Or - and here's the beauty of open source platforms - I could 
beg, borrow and compile all the dependancies on my chosen distribution, 
and I'm off to the races!

Even better, if IBM could manage to confine dependancies to libraries 
included in the Linux Standard Base, they would be able to support myriad 
distros in one shot.  I guess FreeBSD might get left out in this case - 
does BSD have something like the LSB?

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